Coming in 2009
I've posted before that I had information that the xxD line of cameras would take a bigger step forward than the 50D did over the 40D.
The 60D will still be an APS-C camera, but we could see DIGIC V introduced with it.
I have no specs outside of wishlists, but information about the next incarnation should start coming soon.
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Be prepared to be disappointed if anyone is even expecting any of the features posted.
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I will rofl when some obscure chinese company decides to take over the camera industry with a full-featured body and agressive pricing. Chineses will not care about preserving a `slow-pace market growth` and `large incremental sales`, and Canon will be the first company to fall from ladder.
Like THC in the mobile phone market, with Nokia still trying to figure out where the punch came from…
Moire**
There are many uses for focus bracketing other than landscapes or focus stacking.
Here’s one: Imagine you aim at a hawk, half-press, beep, full press. Ok, first of all, it takes you 30 ms to mentally process that beep and hit the shutter. The bird has moved. If the camera brackets the focus, it’s more likely to catch the bird IN focus. Now, you can use a servo mode, where the camera is tracking the bird, however, if the bird moves out of the frame (they do tend to move erratically) then the camera will focus WAY off and when the bird comes back, may (a) fail to refocus or (b) miss the focus. If you *manually* get the right focus by half-press, you know you’re close; focus bracketing can ensure that close == spot on.
Here’s another. You’re at a martial arts match. You focus on the near contestant; they’re moving around like crazy. You shoot. You get one shot. But with focus bracketing, you get multiples, *and* they can extend to get the other contestant as well. Why this matters is because less DOF = wider aperture = faster shutter speed = those fast moving folks are better portrayed. So focus bracketing lets you shoot more action at higher speeds.
Here’s another. You’re shooting astro, trying to get critical focus on a star. That’s *hard*, in case you’ve never tried it. Most AF systems can’t do it (neither my 40D or 50D can do it), and so mostly, this is done manually. The very finest focus bracketing plus and minus will see to it that you can actually GET critical focus.
I could really go on for quite a while; I *really* would like to see focus bracketing as a 60D feature. It’d be a “buy now” flag for me.
Add in two or more point focus micro-adjust and I’m yours, baby.
OK. It still takes time to adjust the focus and take multiple shots. so I do not agree with the usefulness in all but the astro example. furthermore, in those examples, if the camera had a good tracking AF (more points, with better tracking algorithm) there would be no problem. also in your examples you are amazingly optimistic about the subject wandering into the bracketed focus. about the astro example. you now have a 920,000 dot screen on the back of the camera. why would you waste many shots through which you would need to sort to find the correctly focused one when you could just do critical manual focus, and only have in focus shots?
also please explain this comment: But with focus bracketing, you get multiples, *and* they can extend to get the other contestant as well. I don’t quite get what you’re trying to say.